Tag: Ezeiza airport

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 11:04 UTC

  Chile’s volcanic eruption devastates regions fishing; threatens cattle and tourism

  

  A week’s ago volcanic eruptions in Chile’s South have crippled the fresh-water fishing industry there and potentially threaten the cattle industry, too.

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 09:38 UTC

  Flights from Buenos Aires and Montevideo airports gradually begin to normalize

  

  As the volcanic ash cloud begun dissipating airlines operating from the airports of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and the south of Brazil resumed some flights Friday afternoon but it will take several days to be back to normal as companies reprogram backlogs.

• Friday, June 10th 2011 - 05:55 UTC

  The South Cone and Falklands remain under the volcanic ash cloud

  

  Uruguay, most of Argentina, the south of Chile and even the Falkland Islands is the South Atlantic are suffering the consequences of the volcanic ash cloud that remains hovering over the region forcing airlines to cancel flights until further notice.

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 14:19 UTC

  Montevideo and Buenos Aires flights cancelled as ash cloud remains over the area

  

  Flights from Uruguay’s main international airport Carrasco and from Buenos Aires busiest air terminals have been cancelled Thursday until further notice because of the volcanic ash cloud which again is hovering over the River Plate as winds have changed.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Air traffic in Buenos Aires and Montevideo returns to normal as ash cloud disperses

  

  Argentina’s Civil Aviation agency (ANAC) and the Secretariat of Transport announced that the Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports are “now open and operating normally” as the ash cloud spewed by Chile’s Puyehue volcano late Tuesday seemed to be moving away from the Buenos Aires City and part of the River Plate area.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 14:33 UTC

  Ash cloud reaches Buenos Aires city at 5.000 metres height; all flights cancelled

  

  The Chilean volcano Puyehue ash cloud has reached the Argentine capital after moving across the Greater Buenos Aires, but the due effects of the cloud are seen to be minimal. Meanwhile local airlines confirmed cancelled all flights until further notice at the international airport of Ezeiza and at the domestic-flights metropolitan Aeroparque.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:48 UTC

  The volcanic ash cloud could reach Buenos Aires city on Tuesday

  

  The ash cloud hovering above Argentine Northern Patagonia since Saturday after the eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Chilean Andes may reach the city of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, experts assured.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC

  Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

  

  US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:06 UTC

  Buenos Aires main airports cancel all flights as communications system collapses

  

  Flights began to be resumed late Monday in Argentina’s two main airports after they had to be cancelled due to technical problems with the Control Tower system.

• Sunday, March 13th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentina forgets the US Air Force incident and says relations are “excellent”

  

  Relations between Argentina and the United States are ‘excellent’ said ultra ‘Kirchnerite’ lawmaker Carlos Kunkel who discarded as ‘interested parties’ versions indicating certain ‘discomfort’ in President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration with the coming visit of President Barack Obama to El Salvador, Chile and Brazil.